Heather O'Neill Quotes

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

Heather O'Neill

• Feels
• Able
• Tolerate
• Emptiness
• Detachment
• Captivity
• Numbness

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  • Able
  • Tolerate